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Wilde play a witty knock at high society
MEGAN KOJIMA
Issue date: 2/15/07 Section: Out & About
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One paper fan can change everything. One fan can ruin a woman's reputation and send her into a world of trouble with a great risk being the tarnishing of her good name.
In Oscar Wilde's play, "Lady Windermere's Fan," he pokes fun of high-class society by revealing its preoccupation with superficiality and trivial concerns.
Showing at Town and Gown Player's Theater starting Friday, "Lady" was Wilde's first play produced in London.
Love triangles, intertwined with Victorian proper social circles, result in miscommunication that threaten the purest of reputations.
Lady Windermere, a well-to-do woman in London, believes her husband is being unfaithful to her. Little does she know, the woman in question is actually someone from her distant past, adding to the complications and making way for some very compromising situations.
Throw a heaping dollop of biting social commentary into the mix, and Wilde's delightful play is sure to impress.
"It's just about the wittiest thing I've ever read," said first-time director Julie Ramsey of Wilde's play. "Everything Oscar Wilde writes is hilarious and never shallow."
Brad Blythe, who plays Lord Darlington in his fifth Town and Gown production, said his character is "a Tom Jones kind of character, a ladies man."LADY WINDERMERE'S
When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, 8 p.m. Feb. 22-24, 2 p.m. Feb. 25
Where: Athens Community Theatre on Grady Avenue - off Prince Avenue, behind the historic Taylor-Grady House
Cost: $12/students Friday and Saturday, $5/students Thursday and Sunday
More Information: www.townandgownplayers.org
or (706) 208-TOWN
"There was freedom to develop the characters how we thought they should with the other actors on the stage, while the director also had clear idea of what she wanted," he said.
"We had freedom within boundaries."
Temptation is a running theme throughout the play.
Lord Darlington is part of the love triangle as a man in love with Lady Windermere, who tries to convince her to leave Lord Windermere.
"Darlington feels it's justifiable," Blythe said.
Wilde's style and wit will be remembered and transcend time to relate to society today.
In Oscar Wilde's play, "Lady Windermere's Fan," he pokes fun of high-class society by revealing its preoccupation with superficiality and trivial concerns.
Showing at Town and Gown Player's Theater starting Friday, "Lady" was Wilde's first play produced in London.
Love triangles, intertwined with Victorian proper social circles, result in miscommunication that threaten the purest of reputations.
Lady Windermere, a well-to-do woman in London, believes her husband is being unfaithful to her. Little does she know, the woman in question is actually someone from her distant past, adding to the complications and making way for some very compromising situations.
Throw a heaping dollop of biting social commentary into the mix, and Wilde's delightful play is sure to impress.
"It's just about the wittiest thing I've ever read," said first-time director Julie Ramsey of Wilde's play. "Everything Oscar Wilde writes is hilarious and never shallow."
Brad Blythe, who plays Lord Darlington in his fifth Town and Gown production, said his character is "a Tom Jones kind of character, a ladies man."
LADY WINDERMERE'S
FAN
When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, 8 p.m. Feb. 22-24, 2 p.m. Feb. 25
Where: Athens Community Theatre on Grady Avenue - off Prince Avenue, behind the historic Taylor-Grady House
Cost: $12/students Friday and Saturday, $5/students Thursday and Sunday
More Information: www.townandgownplayers.org
or (706) 208-TOWN
"There was freedom to develop the characters how we thought they should with the other actors on the stage, while the director also had clear idea of what she wanted," he said.
"We had freedom within boundaries."
Temptation is a running theme throughout the play.
Lord Darlington is part of the love triangle as a man in love with Lady Windermere, who tries to convince her to leave Lord Windermere.
"Darlington feels it's justifiable," Blythe said.
Wilde's style and wit will be remembered and transcend time to relate to society today.
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